How to delete unix socket entries

[David Malone]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:59:49PM +0400, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> I had a wrong-behaved server application which opened a unix socket to
> respond to incoming connections, so that after the socket was opened, the
> application core dumped each time it was launched. As a result, 'netstat
> -f unix' now shows a lot of not-needed active entries. Is there any way to
> delete them, or will they eventually die by themselves?

I suspect this is a bug in the Unix domain code somewhere. I think
there is a PR assigned to me regarding it, but I've never got around
to fixing it. I don't think there is any easy way to clean them up.

	David.